River Skai
River Skai — a mythos location; coordinates disputed, testimony consistent in mood. Register ME-1919-S83/2377.
Overview
Miskatonic seal ME-1919-S83/2377 binds this packet; duplicate citations must use slug `skai`.
River Skai cannot be visited like Providence; it is approached through texts, dreams, and disasters that leave coordinates in dispute.
Dreamlands river separating Ulthar from the Enchanted Wood.
Period attestation: lovecraft-1920s.
The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.
Description
Boats run to Dylath-Leen when moon-beasts permit.
Sensory reports conflict in detail — scale, colour, limb count — yet agree that the phenomenon offends proportion.
Olfactory notes in depositions: salt, copper, wet stone, and organic sweetness like fruit fermenting in a closed room.
Historical Record
Carter crossed it under cat escort.
Post-1937 pastiche and game supplements multiplied references; the archive tags those layers expanded mythos unless a primary citation is supplied.
Cross-links at dossier foot should be treated as hypotheses, not as family trees carved in stone.
Field Observations
Do not engage alone; do not accept hospitality from hosts who show windows to other eras.
Submit Form Theta-9 if conversation turns to cities remembered only in sleep.
If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.
Archive Notes
Cite archive slug `skai` in all cross-references. If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.
Citation: Miskatonic Expedition Archive. Record ARC-000. Access subject to institutional review.
Related Records
Cross-References
LOC-009
activeUlthar
Beyond the River Skai
A pastel town in the Dreamlands where no man may kill a cat, and where the crowded roofs hide eyes that have watched pilgrims pass since before the waking world learned to fear the dark.
ARC-000
activeEnchanted Wood
Enchanted Wood — a mythos location; coordinates disputed, testimony consistent in mood. Register ME-1921-O69/3056.
LOC-011
activeDylath-Leen
Port of Dark Merchants
A great stone city on the Dreamlands coast where black galleys trade things that should not change hands, and where the smoke of incense hides the face of the moon-beasts' agents.
CON-001
activeCosmic Horror
Philosophical Classification
Horror arising not from personal evil but from the insignificance of humanity before an indifferent, incomprehensible cosmos - the aesthetic that governs every file in this archive.
TOM-001
fragmentaryNecronomicon
Al Azif, Book of Dead Names
The most infamous grimoire of the mythos, an Arabic manuscript of rituals, histories, and formulae that erode the sanity of readers and have never been wholly suppressed, only scattered.